Author-J.C.Philpot

Some beloved idol?J.C.Philpot“Because the whole land is filled with idols, and thepeople are madly in love with them.” Jeremiah 50:38 Have we not all in our various ways,set up some beloved idol . . .something which engaged our affections,something which occupied our thoughts,something to which we devoted all the energies of our minds,something for which […]

Coming up from the wilderness (J. C. Philpot, “Coming up from the Wilderness” 1857) “Who is this coming up from the wilderness,leaning upon her Beloved?” Song of Solomon 8:5 To come up from the wilderness, is to come up outof OURSELVES; for we are ourselves the wilderness.It is our wilderness heart that makes the worldwhat […]

I am weak and ignorant, full of sin andcompassed with infirmity. But I bless Godthat He has in some measure shown methe power of eternal things, and by freeand sovereign grace stopped me in thatcareer of vanity and sin in which, to alloutward appearance, I was fast hurryingdown to the chambers of death.

“To him that overcomes will I give to eat of the hidden manna.” –Revelation 2:17How often God’s word is to you a sealed book; how often you hear from the pulpit the most encouraging preaching, yet get no encouragement from it; how often you hear Christ held forth in his Person, blood and righteousness, and go away as you […]

Reformation is not Regeneration Before the soul can know anything about salvation, it must learn deeply and experimentally the nature of sin, and of itself, as stained and polluted by sin. It is proud, and needs to be humbled; careless, and needs to be awakened; alive, and needs to be killed; full, and requires to […]

“Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.” John 17:17 When the gospel comes “not in word only, but also in power,” it comes “in the Holy Ghost,” that is, in and with the teaching and testimony of the Holy Ghost. It is this coming “in the Holy Ghost” which gives truth in its […]

One mark of the spirit which is not of God, is a spirit of hardness. I use the word “spirit,” because the Scriptures speak in the same way of “the spirit of error,” (1 John iv. 6), “of antichrist,” (1 John iv. 3), “of whoredoms,” (Hos. iv. 12), and so on. We read that “the […]

If You Walk in the Fear of God JC Philpot “If ye were of the world, the world would love his own but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.” John 15:19 If you walk in the fear of God, and […]

Authority, glory and sovereign power! “Hallelujah! For our Lord God Almighty reigns!” Rev. 19:6 The unlimited dominion of King Jesus extends over . . . all things, all events, all circumstances, all people! All are subjected to the sovereign control of the King of kings and Lord of lords! Everywhere on this earthly globe—as far as […]

A mystery to yourself “I find then, the law that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.” Romans 7:21 Are you not often a mystery to yourself? Warm one moment— cold the next! Abasing yourself one hour—exalting yourself the following! Loving the world, full of it, steeped up to your head in […]

It often happens, in the Psalms, that you can scarcely tell whether it
is David, or the Lord Jesus, or both of them, to whom the writer is
referring. Oftentimes you lose sight of David altogether, and are quiet
certain that he is not there; while, at other times, the words seem equally
suited either to David as the type, or to Jesus as the antitype. I think
that this fact is very instructive to us. It is as the Holy Ghost intended,
even in those ancient times, to let God’s saints know that there is a
mysterious union between Christ and His people, so that almost all things
which may be said concerning Him may be said, also, concerning those who are
in Him. They are so completely one, they are so intimately united in bonds
of mystic, vital, conjugal, eternal union, that it would not be possible
always to keep the sayings concerning them apart. — Charles Spurgeon

Jesus sustains no association to His Church more expressive than that of the marriage relationship. From all eternity He forever betrothed her to Himself. He asked her at the hands of her Father—and the Father gave her to Him. He entered into a covenant that she would be His. The conditions of that covenant were great, but not too great for His love to undertake. They were, that He should assume her nature, discharge her legal obligations, endure her punishment, repair her ruin, and bring her to glory! He undertook all, and He accomplished all, because He loved her! The love of Jesus to His Church is the love of the most tender husband. It is single, constant, affectionate, matchless, wonderful. Jesus sympathizes with her, nourishes her, provides for her, clothes her, watches over, and indulges her with the most intimate and endearing tenderness.